Intelligence tests have effectively reduced discrimination in the sense that they have

A) avoided questions that require familiarity with any specific culture.
B) helped limit reliance on educators' subjectively biased judgments of students' academic potential.
C) provided an objective measure of teaching effectiveness in different public school systems.
D) demonstrated that a general intelligence underlies a variety of intellectual skills.

Subjectively Biased Judgments

Evaluations or decisions made based on personal feelings, tastes, or opinions rather than on objective reality, evidence, or rationality.

Discrimination

(1) In classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus; in operant conditioning, the ability to distinguish responses that are reinforced from similar responses that are not reinforced. (2) In social psychology, unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group or its members.

Intelligence Tests

Assessments designed to measure cognitive abilities, including reasoning, problem-solving, and the ability to learn.